So, if you could fish any location (with the exception of your home waters), where would it be, and why that location?
Thanks for your responses.
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So, if you could fish any location (with the exception of your home waters), where would it be, and why that location?
Thanks for your responses.
Byron,
I do fish where I really want to, the rivers in the great state of Montana. Mostly the western rivers, over to central Montana. Rivers like the Clark Fork, the Big Hole, the Missouri and the Yellowstone. It is really hard to go wrong with them.
Larry ---sagefisher---
Love the Madison, but hard to beat the beauty of the Lamar Valley. Those cutthroat trout of Slough Creek or
Soda Butte are a favorite of my wife and me. We get out that way every 2-3 years and next year should be our next trip. When not there though the Catskills keep me very content and satisfied.
Gene
When I was a kid I wanted to be like Lee Wulff and discover the next new undiscovered blue ribbon fishery.
Still feel the same way.
(the wilds of Labrador and northern PQ)
I would pick the Snake River somewhere between Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. Why because it is overlooked to some extent by other trout rivers in Wyoming and Montana and offers the angler lots of species of both warm and cold river fish. I have caught cuttthroats over 4 lbs, channel cats, crappie, carp, whitefish to name less than half the species in that river. Verity would insure lack of boredom.
Tim
Look into Hubbards Yellowstone Lodge. Next June will be my forth trip
Private lake with big fish & 17 miles from North gate to the park.
Bob.
Southern Florida.
I enjoy fishing for many different fish species, and Florida has them in abundance....in fresh, brackish and salt waters.
They've got just about everything EXCEPT freshwater trout, salmon, char and grayling. Those are great species too,....so my 2nd choice would be Alaska. :)
Perhaps Wyoming ( need I explain?)_
Mark
Minnipi Brook Trout Labrador
I can't remember the name of the creek, but it is off the Denali Highway at the west end. Beautiful spot and willing Grayling. Had a ball unit I blew out a tire in the rental car. The spare developed a slow leek so I had to hightail it back to civilization before I got stuck in the middle of nowhere. Ended up eating lunch in junkyard waiting for the only guy in the area that could fix a flat. Anyway, always dreamed of going back and catching my fill.
I long ago gave up on "destination" flyfishing, and just fish the same old places (which, admittedly, are destinations for some folks). The fishing wasn't any BETTER in those famous places. It was just different. But not different enough for me to spend much money getting there, hiring guides, buying flies, staying in lodges, and the like.
When I think about questions like this I think more about with whom I would like to fish. My choice would be Musquash Pond in NH with my buddy John, who kindled the love of fly fishing in me so many years ago.
spring creek fishing at it finest at no tellem creek in Idaho somewhere,
Kelly K knows too --:)
Be safe
Since it's an 'If You Could' question, I'd have to say Ireland. The creek where Ward Bond's character, Father Peter Lonergan, was fishing and hooked up when the donnybrook between Sean Thornton (John Wayne) and Squire Danaher ( Victor McLagen) broke out in "The Quiet Man." The 'Why' is because I have always liked that scene. Jim
Anywhere in Alaska.
I have an extensive list. I need to live a very long time to get everything checked off!
A Chalk Stream or two in Europe....just to say I did it. :)
I would just love to be able to fish...got another 3 months until I can.
As we move into another Michigan winter with highs today below freezing my thoughts turn to New Zeeland. I've seen pictures of some very nice browns there and as we almost share the same language it would be better than some of the other southern hemisphere destinations.
The San Miguel in SW CO because IMO, there's no where on earth more beautiful than the San Juan Mountains. I can't imagine being happier anywhere else for every reason that matters to me.
That would be Jack Creek if right at the junction with the Parks Highway or Fish Creek if you are talking say 15 miles in on the Denali. I checked it just last week and both creeks are still there, though ice-bound.
While both are decent grayling creeks there are much better examples very close to them.
Denny caught a fish somewhere north of 22" in one that jumps to mind. He wanted a fish over 18" to release and earn a patch from ADF&G. He caught quite a few grayling but I am not sure if he caught one UNDER 18"... He decided 22 and change worked for him.
I have only been fishing Alaska for a bit over 5 decades and while I have experienced a ton of truly incredible fishing there is always more to try... I guess I will stick around here for a while...
3 pages of responses and counting....and nobody has mentioned Iowa yet?? :rolleyes:
Are we the Rodney Dangerfield of fishing destinations? :rolleyes::p
Good one, Dave. LOL!
If I had unlimited funds my dream trip would to be go to southern Argentina to fish for gigantic sea run browns.
I feel like the odd man out here, but I would fish the Amazon basin for Peacock bass and/or all the other fantastic species of fish you can find there.
Jim Smith
My place would be a bone fish flat/tarpon alley within a hours drive of a smallie river that I could float and wade. Along the river would be my lodge where I could host fellow fly fishermen and enjoy good fellowship.
Alaska...Just to be part of it.
Mike
My choice would be a chalk stream in England. Perhaps it would be the one discussed in Neil Patterson's book "Chalkstream Chronicle: Living Out the Flyfisher's Fantasy".
Regards,
Ed
I like where I am at, but my first choice for fishing is definitely Florida. Fish everywhere, even in puddles.......
I am English and live in the trout paradise of NZ and last year during a visit "home" to England a very kind gentleman invited me to fish with him on a couple of Chalk Streams close to Salisbury, Having never fished an English chalk stream I was over the moon at the invite and we spent the day fishing some fantastic water and catching some lovely Browns. It was for me a great trip, nothing like fishing in NZ but just as good and just as enjoyable.
So Chalk Stream, done.
Salt Water Flats in the Pacific, Done and can't wait for more!
Swinging for steelhead, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Fishing for big Sea run Trout in Patagonia love to but have to win Lotto first!
Alaska, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Montana, love to but have to win Lotto first!
Grey Mullet in Portsmouth Harbour, maybe next year!
Florida, Cuba, Bahamas....love to but have to win Lotto first!
I think to be fair I will never run out of dream destinations to do exactly that, Dream about. But look at the start of this post, some dreams do come true.
All the best.
Mike
It would have to be Alaska, especially where we were on the last visit, The Lynn Canal, just a tad north of Juneau.
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Steelhead alley trip swinging for chrome
Driftless area to wander little blue lines
Wyoming.....
Guadalupe river in TX for Guadalupe bass and cichlids
South Florida for exotics
Alaska for gigantic grayling
Mississippi for big slab crappie, bluegill, and shellcracker
Arkansas or Missouri for small stream native smallmouth
Well, that's a tall order. Since I'm not planning on learning new languages or reforming political systems for fishing, places like Kamchatka and Iran are out, though they probably both have great fishing. If money and time are the only reasons preventing me from going, then...
I'm a sucker for small stream fishing, especially if it is remote. Most of my fishing locally is in small streams for both warm and coldwater species, even though big rivers and reservoirs are available to me. For my small stream fix I would look in the Rocky Mountains anywhere from New Mexico to Alaska. I would be okay in the Sierra's too.
I've never fished an alpine lake, and they are intriguing. I'd love to do that in the High Uintas Wilderness of Utah on a weeklong backpacking trip, but would be OK in Rocky Mountain National Park, the High Sierras, or the Wind Rivers.
My lifetime catch (spin and fly) in saltwater is still currently 0. I'd love to change that, preferably in a warm ocean somewhere, although the North Carolina Outer Banks would count in the summer, as would the Gulf Coast most of the year, or Florida and the Caribbean anytime. But given my past track record, I'd want to have a guide to increase my odds.
I do like the idea of fishing summer all year by switching hemispheres, although that is really the only draw for me to want to go to NZ versus the US Mountain West.
I'd also like to have a bass/bluegill/catfish pond on my own property. I have the place all picked out...
New Zealand
Christmas Island
Alaska
My New Year resolution for the past four years has been "to fish new waters, and fish with someone that I have not fished with". That said I would like to fish the St. Joe river in Idaho, or the Pot Holes in Washington. There are enough places in the Northwest that I have yet to fish that I have no desire to go tropical.
Merry Christmas all!!
My dream destinations include New Zealand, Patagonia, and Labrador. If I had to pick just one.... I'd go with Labrador